2013

Honor Books: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein; Dodger by Terry Pratchett; The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna

2012

Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Honor Books: Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman; The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater

Honor Books: Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah HeiligmanThe Monstrumologist by Rick YanceyPunkzilla by Adam RappTales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

2009Winner:Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Honor Books:The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. AndersonThe Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. LockhartNation by Terry PratchettTender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

2008Winner:The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Honor Books: Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth KnoxOne Whole and Perfect Day by Judith ClarkeRepossessed by A.M. JenkinsYour Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill

2007Winner:American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Honor Books:The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. AndersonAn Abundance of Katherines, by John GreenSurrender, by Sonya HartnettThe Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006

Winner:

Looking for Alaska, by John Green

Honor Books:

Black Juice , by Margo LanaganI Am the Messenger , by Markus ZusakJohn Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth PartridgeA Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005

Winner:

how i live now, by Meg Rosoff

Honor Books:

Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel

Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004:

Winner:

The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

Honor Books:

A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly

Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost

Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003

Winner:

Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

Honor Books:

The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer

My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr

Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002

Winner:

A Step From Heaven, by An Na

Honor Books:

The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams

Freewill, by Chris Lynch

True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001

Winner:

Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

Honor Books:

Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman

The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci

Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison